Share your SA2009+ success stories!

[bovatec]

I live by this program.. I use it every day. It is 1000% better then any GPS system I have seen. I have a built in lap top system in my van. I download address every day from our database of customers that I have to go do bids for or what ever. I buy the software every year...... PLS Delorme do not stop making this software.

[Nedra]

Well, one of our success stories in our truck is actually multiple repeated success stories.
One of the best assets to any truck driver is the ability to draw in routable roads. I cannot tell you how many times our off-route goes wild as we drive across a relatively new road or one that's been missed in data updates, as the program sees us driving rapidly through vacant fields (in it's opinion). I can draw in the road and next time we follow that route, the off-route alarm is silent as we're now driving across a routable road I have drawn into the data base. This to me is one of the biggest assets to SA20xx+ !!!

We've tried MANY mapping programs and ALL of them are behind in some places in the road data. The new roads are put up or reconfigured faster than the data bases can keep up with. My only complaint is that I cannot create usable freeway offramps and road changes on freeways or higher level roads. I really gotta go get GPSBabel and install it... I think it can help me on that issue, if my aging memory is correct.

[Nedra]

My other success story is creating routable trails that I follow when driving my atv around the farm. I can draw a line / arc / spline and make it into a routable trail. That helps a lot as we have numerous logging roads on our 125 acre farm. I also mark fence lines, power lines, water lines, etc. etc.

I use the measure tool to mark the outer perimeter of the farm and get the acreage inside our outer perimeter of the entire acreage, as well as that information for each fenced pasture area. That's two more success stories in one note. I just wish I knew what file holds the measure tool information so I could save it from one installation to another and not have to redraw it every time I update the program. I also wish I could edit the line drawn by the measure tool as sometimes I find a small error and have to redraw the entire measurement from scratch.

[west3man]

Cool stuff, Nedra. Thanks.

[west3man]

Although I have largely abandoned the Delorme Street Atlas software, for various reasons, (I'm not here to trash it) I had a positive experience with it, just the other week.

We took an impromptu trip to the coast, one weekend, using other navigation solutions but we missed a turn on the dark trek back. When I realized we were headed the wrong way and that my sweet, but navigationally-challenged companion couldn't help, I pulled over.

We pulled out my iPad, and two Palm Pre's - three devices on two networks - and still couldn't get a clear idea of where we were.

Annoyed, I grabbed my old Palm Treo 755p and turned on the Street Atlas Handheld software, charged-up my Earthmate Bluetooth gps receiver, and had a lock and a map of our location in relatively short-order. We went back, took a shortcut, then got back on track (without going alllllll the way back the way we came) and all was well.